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The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star
Like so many before him, he left to win. He left because he felt that was the only way he could win. Zack Greinke represented a generation of Royals baseball, the kind where hope manifested in individual players, not the team itself, but eventually you knew that too would be snatched away. The 20-something-year-old Greinke personified that guy, the one worth the price of admission for a team that so often was not. The one who eventually had to leave town to find the two things baseball players crave most — money and winning. And a dozen years later, he now believes he can find that here. In Ka…